:25:10
Rich matrons pay well to be pleasured
by the bravest champions.
:25:14
I knew your brother
would send assassins.
:25:18
I didn't realize
he would send his best.
:25:23
Maximus, he doesn't know.
:25:26
My family was burnt and crucified
while they were still alive.
:25:30
- I knew nothing...
- Don't lie to me!
:25:41
I wept for them.
:25:44
As you wept for your father?
As you wept for your father?
:25:48
I have been living in a prison of fear
since that day.
:25:53
To be unable to mourn your father
for fear of your brother.
:25:59
To live in terror
every moment of every day...
:26:02
because your son
is heir to the throne.
:26:08
Oh, I have wept.
:26:11
My son...
:26:13
was innocent.
:26:16
So is mine.
:26:20
Must my son die, too,
before you'll trust me?
:26:26
What does it matter
if I trust you or not?
:26:31
The gods have spared you.
Don't you understand?
:26:34
Today I saw a slave become more powerful
than the emperor of Rome.
:26:38
The gods have spared me?
:26:41
I am at their mercy,
with the power only to amuse the mob.
:26:45
That is power.
:26:48
The mob is Rome, and while Commodus
controls them, he controls everything.
:26:54
Listen to me.
:26:56
My brother has enemies,
most of all in the senate.